I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
BERTRAND RUSSELLOf all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.
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The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
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Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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